It had been nearly a month since our last visit to The Hilton, which was probably a good thing given the weather this time of year can make renovating extremely uncomfortable.

With the demolition works complete (well, at least on the house… there’s plenty more outbuildings to be removed) our work was limited to some cleaning up and preparing for restumping.

We arrived on Friday afternoon after picking up a replacement verandah post and some fascia on the way and decided to spend the rest of the day relaxing so that we could attack our chores on Saturday with a vengeance.

Saturday morning we went into town to do some shopping and for donuts and coffee at “The Boyz” with Phil and Janet

Once back at the house Shirleen and Janet attacked the ever increasing crop of bindis growing in the yard whilst Phil and I set about securing the verandah posts to the fascias with some bolts to replace the rusted nails.

By the end of the day 3/4 of the verandah posts were securely bolted, 6 huge garbage bags of bindis (plus a 120 litre wheelie bin) graced the back yard, dozens old fronds had been cut from the two large palm trees in the yard, and muscles were getting sore, so we quit for the day, showered, and joined Phil and Janet for dinner and (of course) wine.

Sunday morning we filled the trailer with bindis and fronds and trundled off to the tip. We visited mum on the way home, then joined neighbours Ken and Hazel for morning tea, after which we did some chores around the house and packed up ready for the return trip.

The weekend ended far too quickly and we cant wait for our next trip which we have earmarked to start packing the house up in preparation for restumping. Roll on 5th March!

Bindi Bags

Our chosen paint scheme

Palm Tree